Harvard Business

AUGUST 9, 2016

The types of private equity firms and the approaches to managing these firms has evolved over the last 40 years through three general phases. These buy outs shifted agency from owners to managers; “corporate raiders” worked with high-yield debt to fund these turnarounds. Large private equity firms (e.g.,

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 22, 2018

Water, no ice, please,” said Noelle Freeman, the CFO of Franklin Climate Systems. Franklin was in the business of designing, engineering, and manufacturing climate control systems for cars and SUVs. It’s like we’re surgeons who have a patient bleeding out on the operating table. Or pull out our scalpels?”

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Harvard Business

MAY 25, 2016

By looking at detailed sales data from 40 companies in technology-related industries, we have identified guidelines for the optimal amount and type of sales support and management. This includes all non-quota-carrying roles in the organization: customer-facing support, sales operations and administration, and sales management.

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Harvard Business

JULY 2, 2018

Agile — the management approach that relies on small, entrepreneurial, close-to-the-customer teams — has a reputation that reflects its rapid adoption in software development. It is most definitely not for big, old-line companies that are facing an existential crisis and require a full-scale turnaround.

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1 to 1

AUGUST 18, 2021

More often we are seeing digitally transforming legacy support systems as a key to meeting modern expectations. With post-pandemic online shopping increasing and deals running longer and earlier, consistent quality and service levels are essential to keep operations running smoothly and customers happy. Retailers need to remain nimble.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 5, 2016

Operated in regions with different levels of competition and access to resources. We could analyze the effects of 58 types of investment, on 18 performance measures over time, in 160 academies operating in 18 different regions. Like any turnaround, there is no magic bullet — a series of remedial steps need to be taken.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 23, 2016

The entire system of quarterly reporting has been regularly criticized but remains resolutely in place. While the world of quarterly reports is the preserve of managers, the long term is the fiefdom of leaders. A key feature of the turnaround, led by CEO Marcel Telles, was avoiding a hopelessly long-term view.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

When a private equity firm adds a new company to its portfolio, analysts rigorously size up its financial, operational, and competitive condition. In fact, management consultancy Bain & Co. Mistaking quick thinking for systems thinking. Selectively developing top team members to accomplish the strategy.

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 11, 2017

In phase 3, successful portfolio transformations require financial discipline that is not an event, but a pattern; strategic clarity that is not a direction, but a commitment; operational excellence that is not a tool, but a mindset. Limited partners appreciated the firm’s attention to organization issues as part of their presentation.

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Harvard Business

MAY 4, 2016

Hiring managers will see what you have done — and can do for them. He’s building a bridge between challenges he’s met in the past and challenges the hiring manager is currently facing: “Build start-ups’ commercial infrastructures from the ground up—driving long-term growth and profitability.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Throughout the study’s assessments of female CEOs, a combination of four traits and competencies emerged as key to their success: courage, risk-taking, resilience, and managing ambiguity. “It wasn’t until that conversation,” one woman recalled, “that I even imagined anything past manager, forget CEO.

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Asamby Consulting

AUGUST 30, 2022

A wiki is a knowledge management system that: Is digital and Is updated and edited by its own audience. But given the above (growing volume of information), you as the CEO or manager can't update all information yourself. The turnaround time can easily be days instead of minutes. You want to tap into swarm intelligence.

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Harvard Business

MARCH 13, 2017

Organizations waste too much time - see how Bain helps them manage it like money in this 10-minute video slide deck. redesign the operating model. These proliferating operations lead to complexity, which contributes to drag as well as costs that rob resources from better and potentially more-profitable ideas. Related Video.

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Harvard Business

MAY 18, 2017

Garvin was a generalist more than a specialist, perhaps because he came of age at HBS during the 1980s, when the school’s primary focus was the development of skilled general managers. A Sloan Management Review article (which I had the pleasure of working on) provides valuable context for Garvin’s most-read HBR articles.

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BCG

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

Shaving one minute off the time each aircraft is on the ground between flights can save $5 million to $10 million a year in freed aircraft time and hidden costs across the operation. No other aspect of an airline’s operations has as broad or as deep an impact on the entire organization.

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1 to 1

DECEMBER 7, 2021

With post-pandemic online shopping increasing and deals starting earlier and running longer, consistent quality and service levels are essential to keep operations running smoothly. Legacy systems are often overwhelmed and there’s no integration among disparate channels.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

At first, the causes of free fall appear to be external: a global financial crisis, a banking system collapse, government deregulation, or, more common, a new business model or technology harnessed by a nimble insurgent competitor. When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons.

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Harvard Business

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Great stories are credible, simple, consistent, and use both financial and nonfinancial metrics to link a long-term vision and firm values with a distinctive business strategy and focused operational priorities. They operated with a both/and mindset, seeking to deliver on immediate goals in a way that also built a sustainable future.

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Harvard Business

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Some maintained secret wait lists outside the system, officially adding patients 14 days before their scheduled appointments. Obama nominated Robert McDonald , an Army veteran and experienced executive who had honed his leadership skills during a 33-year career at Proctor and Gamble, to attempt the difficult turnaround.

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Harvard Business

SEPTEMBER 14, 2017

As a school leader sets off on this journey, how do they know what to do, when to do it, who to listen to, and how to manage critics along the way? Our study of the actions and impact of 411 leaders of UK academies found that only 62 of them managed their turnaround successfully and sustainably transformed their school.

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Harvard Business

OCTOBER 10, 2016

IBM has been building a talent system that both aligns with and accelerates this phenomenon of the external disaggregation of work. How talent management is changing. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more. employees, customers, free agents, communities we operate in) and so much more.

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